When one of Oslo's hottest celebrity chefs is murdered, Hanne Wilhelmsen
is called back into action in "a nearly pitch-perfect procedural layered
over a moving exploration of rejection and abandonment" (Booklist) in
the sixth installment of the award-winning series from Norway's #1
bestselling female crime writer.On a cold December evening, celebrity
chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of Oslo's
police headquarters, sending a shock wave through the city's hip
in-crowd. Chef Ziegler had many famous associates and more than a few
enemies among them. Was his murder a random act of violence or did
someone want him dead? Police investigator Billy T. is stymied by
conflicting information about the kind of man Ziegler was. It seems
nobody really knew him: not his glamorous wife, his business partner,
nor the editor of his memoir-in-progress. The case is hopeless until
Hanne Wilhelmsen returns to Oslo after a six-month stay in Italy and
teams up with Billy T. Working together, they are pulled deep into the
nefarious world inhabited by Ziegler. Was he at all the chef he claimed
to be? And can those who knew him be trusted? In the fabulous No Echo,
"transcripts of witness statements alternate with Anne Holt's
penetrating psychological analysis of human desires, weaknesses, and
essential decency, unveiling unexpected dimensions of her series
characters" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
